Everyday500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPEEAWDRyY1
I put on this great little homemade mask. 500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdGe7yWUwBl
cracked papier mache,500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAgGob8vtBH
cheery smiling face.
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and everyday you walk past.500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxzQlTalPKY
the hand holding the mask trembles but500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWEroadlu4d
stays, firmish, like some lone priest 500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtFJkOwjWkP
at some abandoned temple, the frail figure 500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrNSNVON1Do
who amidst those tourists500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfeonG5RJW8
is the only one left who believes in the gods 500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIssKPJOqqY
his precious church was built to exalt.
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smiling500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvaz4SF6ck0
happy500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ96nKGCTzuk
looking ahead500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPyMrQ9Tm1Y
please don’t touch that.
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we want to get that mask off, right500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaB1KwUxyVN
but lost in those surging waves of inky, shrieking, metaphors500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZFJ0AOxjW
and the neverending tears from a splattered brush of fingers 500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2EUlGgAK39
and gross bloody tendons dripping from a heart onto the carpet500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Z7ESOSSXA
the mask clutches me in terror.
It’d be cruel to take it off now, in this storm. I need to keep it safe500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgrmF94zSyy
sheltered from rain that patters away at it500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEUAaqyjsvq
—gnawing. Little sparkling fangs ripping out fibres.
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Maybe later, though,500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMHQQTj3zSa
when the sun comes out again,500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrR0RDHqs2Q
I'll throw the mask away, into the fluffy air500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP4eRFsnM4I
kiss it goodbye500Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIm64Xo5mvD
and skip, childlike, into the warmth of something happy.
